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Tracking Cholera Outbreaks in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Technological tools have recently helped track epidemics of influenza and tropical diseases such as dengue fever. With a new project, researchers are using computer forecasting to predict outbreaks of cholera, a highly con...

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'Black Swan' IT Projects With Out-of-Control Budgets Can Kill Enterprises

Major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business projects, according to a recent study from Oxford University.

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DISASTERS: New risk index helps indentify vulnerability

With the media spotlight on the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, governments and aid organizations have come under fire for their lack of a developmental approach, but a new tool launched by the UN University Inst...

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PAKISTAN: Two million hit by floods in Sindh Province

Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh is facing disaster once more with heavy rains over the past five days, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). “Two million people in 15 [out of 23] districts...

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